Occuluder

ABSTRACT

An occluder includes a first occluder disc, a second occluder disc, a waist portion connecting the first occluder disc and the second occluder disc, and at least one soft and fibrous strand bundle structure. The strand bundle structure is disposed on at least one of a disc surface of the first occluder disc and a disc surface of the second occluder disc, the two disc surfaces faces each other, and the strand bundle structure is disposed near the waist portion. By disposing the strand bundle structure to be immediately adjacent to the waist portion, a defect opening can be occluded after implantation, thereby effectively blocking blood from flowing from one side of the defect to the other side thereof, and preventing a shunt from being formed.

FIELD

The present application relates to a medical device, and moreparticularly relates to a device for occluding a passageway or a defector an opening in a human body, namely an occluder applicable to PatentForamen Ovale (PFO) and also applied to occluding patent ductusarteriosus, atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect and thelike.

BACKGROUND

With continuous development of interventional devices and theinterventional cardiology, a minimally invasive transcatheter occludertherapy has become an important method for treating congenital heartdiseases such as atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, patentductus arteriosus and patent foramen ovale. An intervention mode forendovascular occlusion is also a widely accepted treatment measure.

With reference to FIG. 1, an existing occluder 1 generally includes afirst occluder disc 11, a second occluder disc 12 and a waist portion 13connecting the first occluder disc 11 with the second occluder disc 12.After the occluder 1 is implanted into a human body, the first occluderdisc 11 and the second occluder disc 12 are respectively located on twoopposite sides of a passageway or a defect or an opening (which is knownas the defect 2) in the human body, and cover an opening of the defect 2to prevent blood (the flow direction of which is represented by arrow A)from flowing into the defect 2, and the waist portion 13 is located inthe defect 2. If the first occluder disc 11 and/or the second occluderdisc 12 are not closely fitted to a tissue wall, the blood may flow fromone side of the defect 2 into the defect 2 through a gap between theoccluder 1 and the tissue wall, and then flow into the other side of thedefect 2. The blood flow direction is represented by arrow B in FIG. 1.This blood shunt phenomenon is called residual shunt.

The above-mentioned residual shunt phenomenon is particularly prominentin Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) occlusion. As the PFO is a long and narrowpassageway, the thickness of a septum secundum 3 is greater than that ofa septum primum 4, and a tissue structure around the defect 2 has athick upper edge and a thin lower edge. If the waist portion 13 of theoccluder has a relatively large radial size or relatively lowflexibility, it hardly realizes auto-deformation according to the PFOpassageway, and then easily leads to the fact that the first occluderdisc 11 and/or the second occluder disc 12 may not be completely fittedto the tissue wall, thereby forming a gap between the disc surface andthe tissue wall, which is a passageway for residual shunt. For arelatively small residual shunt, with the gradual growth of endothelialcells, the defect 2 still may be finally occluded, but for a relativelylarge residual shunt, the blood would cause a change of its flowvelocity when flowing through the defect 2, which may induce thrombosis,so that it needs to prolong anticoagulation therapy for a patient; andwhen entering blood circulation, the formed thrombi may cause severeadverse events such as embolization.

Therefore, it is desired to provide an occluder capable of obviouslyreducing the residual shunt.

SUMMARY

In view of the technical problems and shortcomings in the prior art, thepresent application provides an occluder capable of obviously reducingresidual shunt.

The technical scheme for solving the technical problem is that: anoccluder is provided, including a first occluder disc, a second occluderdisc, and a waist portion connecting the first occluder disc with thesecond occluder disc. The occluder further includes at least oneloosened filament bundle structure. The filament bundle structure isdisposed on at least one of two opposite disc surfaces of the firstoccluder disc and the second occluder disc and is close to the waistportion.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, at least one end of the filament bundle structure isimpending freely.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, the middle portion of the filament bundle structure isconnected with the disc surface, and two ends of the filament bundlestructure are impending freely.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, the occluder includes a plurality of lamelliform filamentbundle structures distributed around the waist portion; each lamelliformfilament bundle structure is wound by at least one strand of filamentbundle; and the lamelliform filament bundle structures are spaced fromone another or at least part of the lamelliform filament bundlestructures are gathered and connected together on the disc surface.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, one end of at least one lamelliform filament bundlestructure is connected with the disc surface, and the other end of thelamelliform filament bundle structure is impending freely; and/or themiddle portion of at least one lamelliform filament bundle structure isconnected with the disc surface, and two ends of the lamelliformfilament bundle structure are impending freely.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, the occluder includes a number of woven filament bundlestructures distributed around the waist portion; each woven filamentbundle structure includes multiple strands of intertwined and wovenfilament bundles; and the woven filament bundle structures are spacedfrom one another or at least part of the woven filament bundlestructures are gathered and connected together on the disc surface.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, each woven filament bundle structure axially includes aconnection section and an impending section which are connected witheach other; one end of the connection section is connected with the discsurface; at least one portion of the impending section is impendingfreely; and at least one strand of filament bundle in the impendingsection includes a plurality of naturally dispersed filaments.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, the filament bundle structures are loosely intertwined onthe disc surface.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, the disc surface includes a filament woven structure; andthe filament bundle structures are intertwined on at least one part ofweaving filaments of the disc surface and/or the filament bundlestructures pass through a plurality of woven grids of the disc surfacein an interpenetrating manner.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, the filament bundle structures include a plurality offilaments which are made of a polyamide or PET (polyethyleneterephthalate) material.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, the filament bundle structures include a plurality offilaments with a diameter of 0.01 mm to 0.2 mm.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, the waist portion includes at least one connection wirewhich connects the two opposite disc surfaces of the first occluder discand the second occluder disc; or the waist portion includes a pluralityof closed rings, and each closed ring is connected with the two oppositedisc surfaces of the first occluder disc and the second occluder discthrough one independent connection wire; or the waist portion is amulti-turn closed coil formed by penetrating one connection wire throughthe two opposite disc surfaces of the first occluder disc and the secondoccluder disc in a reciprocating manner.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, when the waist portion is maximally pulled, its long axisis in a range from 1 mm to 4 mm, and further is in a range from 1 mm to2 mm.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, the filament bundle structures are at least disposed on thedisc surface, which faces to the second occluder disc, of the firstoccluder disc; the disc surface is woven by elastic weaving filaments,and includes a central region and an edge region surrounding the centralregion; when the central region and the edge region are respectivelycompressed to the minimum in a radial direction, the maximum crosssectional area of the central region subjected to the radial compressionis smaller than the minimum cross sectional area of the edge regionsubjected to the radial compression; and the waist portion is connectedwith the central region.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, the disc surface, which faces to the second occluder disc,of the first occluder disc includes a central hole; the first occluderdisc includes a multi-order woven mesh; the central region includes afirst order of woven mesh which is closest to the central hole and iswoven by a number of first order weaving filaments; the edge regionincludes a second order of woven mesh which is jointly woven by a numberof first order weaving filaments and a plurality of second order weavingfilaments and is farther from the waist portion than the first order ofwoven mesh; and the waist portion is connected with the first order ofwoven mesh.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, the filament bundle structures are disposed on the firstorder of woven mesh.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, there are not more than 72 first order weaving filaments.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, the diameter of each first order weaving filament rangesfrom 0.08 mm to 0.15 mm.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, the filament bundle structures are at least disposed on thedisc surface, which faces to the second occluder disc, of the firstoccluder disc; in a naturally unfolded state, the edge of the firstoccluder disc is bent towards the second occluder disc, thus forming aflange; at least one portion of the second occluder disc is sunken intoa region formed by the flange in an encircling manner; or the secondoccluder disc is located outside the region formed by the flange in theencircling manner.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, the second occluder disc is a single-layer disc woven byelastic weaving filaments and includes an interlocking structure andmultiple supporting rods radiating from the center; the multiplesupporting rods are connected into a whole through the interlockingstructure; and the whole second occluder disc is a flat structure, andall portions of the second occluder disc have uniform thickness.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, in a region near the center of the second occluder disc,each weaving filament of one of the multiple supporting rods isoverlapped with the multiple weaving filaments of other supporting rodsin sequence, thus forming the interlocking structure.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, the multiple supporting rods are disposed in pairs; andeach pair of supporting rods is located on the same diameter of thesecond occluder disc.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, each pair of supporting rods is woven by the same group ofelastic weaving filaments; the group of elastic weaving filaments ofeach pair of supporting rods is divided into two subgroups; and the twosubgroups of elastic weaving filaments respectively bypass a centralpoint of the interlocking structure from two sides of the central point.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, one section, which is close to the tail end, of eachsupporting rod is of a spring shape.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, the position, which is close to the tail end of eachsupporting rod, on one weaving filament of the supporting rod is of thespring shape, and the tail ends of other weaving filaments of the samesupporting rod are restricted in a cavity of the spring.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, blunt noses are disposed at the tail ends of the supportingrods and wrap the tail ends of the weaving filaments.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, the second occluder disc further includes a soft membranewhich covers the supporting rods and the annular interlocking structure.

According to the occluder provided by the embodiment of the presentapplication, an included angle between two supporting rods may varybetween 30 and 150 degrees.

According to the occluder provided by the present application, thefilament bundle structures are closely adjacent to the waist portion andmay block an opening of a defect after the occluder is implanted,thereby effectively preventing blood from flowing into the defect fromone side of the defect and/or preventing the blood from passing throughthe defect and flowing into the other side of the defect from one sideof the defect, and avoiding formation of a residual shunt. In addition,the filament bundle structures are loosened structures, so thatclearance spaces in the filament bundle structures may be easily filledwith influent blood to form sealed structures, and the blood containedand retained in the loosened structures may easily form thrombi whichmay further compact the sealed structures, thereby enhancing a blockingeffect on the blood; in addition, no other extra occluding materials areneeded, thereby reducing a biological risk after the implantation.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Further descriptions are made to the present application in combinationwith accompanying drawings and embodiments as follows. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a structure of an example prior artoccluder implanted into a defect;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a structure of an occluder of a firstembodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a lamelliform filament bundle structurein FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of one strand of filament bundle in FIG.3;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of spaced distribution of the multiplelamelliform filament bundle structures in FIG. 2;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of connection between the multiplegathered and connected lamelliform filament bundle structures and afirst occluder disc in FIG. 2;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of the multiple gathered and connectedlamelliform filament bundle structures in FIG. 2;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of the occluder, which is compressed intoa sheath, in FIG. 2;

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of a local portion of the occluder in FIG.2;

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of a multi-order woven structure includedin the first occluder disc in FIG. 2;

FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram of a second occluder disc in FIG. 2;

FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram of a structure of an occluder of a secondembodiment of the present application;

FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram of a woven filament bundle structure inFIG. 12;

FIG. 14 is a schematic diagram of connection of the multiple wovenfilament bundle structures in FIG. 12 through a central fixing member;

FIG. 15 is a schematic diagram of woven connection of the multiple wovenfilament bundle structures in FIG. 12;

FIG. 16 is a schematic diagram of a structure of an occluder of a thirdembodiment of the present application;

FIG. 17 is a schematic diagram of a filament bundle structure in FIG.16;

FIG. 18 is a schematic diagram of an occluder of a fourth embodiment ofthe present application after implantation;

FIG. 19 is a schematic diagram of an example occluder of a fifthembodiment of the present application;

FIG. 20 is a schematic diagram of another example occluder of the fifthembodiment of the present application;

FIG. 21 is a schematic diagram of a second occluder disc of an exampleoccluder of a sixth embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 22 is a schematic diagram of a local portion of the second occluderdisc in FIG. 21;

FIG. 23 is a schematic diagram of an occluder of a seventh embodiment ofthe present application;

FIG. 24 is a schematic diagram of the occluder of the seventh embodimentof the present application after implantation.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

For the purpose of making understandings of technical features, objectsand effects of the present application more clearly, detaileddescriptions are made to specific implementation modes of the presentapplication with reference to the drawings currently.

The present application provides an occluder, which includes a firstoccluder disc, a second occluder disc, a waist portion connecting thefirst occluder disc with the second occluder disc, and at least oneloosened filament bundle structure. The filament bundle structure isdisposed on at least one of two opposite disc surfaces of the firstoccluder disc and the second occluder disc and is close to the waistportion.

Each filament bundle structure is distributed close to the waistportion, and is located near an opening of a defect after the occluderis implanted, so that residual shunted blood flow may firstly flow intothe filament bundle structure when entering the defect or flowing out ofthe defect; and in addition, clearance spaces are reserved in theloosened filament bundle structures, and may contain and retain theblood, and the contained and retained blood in these clearance spacesmay easily form thrombi to form occlusion near the opening of thedefect, thus preventing the blood from flowing into the defect and/orflowing out of the defect as much as possible to avoid formation of theresidual shunt as much as possible. In addition, the thrombi formed bythe blood flow in the filament bundle structures would lead to occlusionwhich may reduce the use of other sealing materials to lower thebiological risk after the implantation and may further contribute tofilling and repairing of the defect, thus shortening the time requiredfor defect closure.

First Embodiment

With reference to FIG. 2, an occluder 5 according to the firstembodiment of the present application includes a first occluder disc 51,a second occluder disc 52, and a waist portion 53 which is locatedbetween the first occluder disc 51 and the second occluder disc 52, andconnects the first occluder disc 51 with the second occluder disc 52.The occluder 5 further includes multiple loosened lamelliform filamentbundle structures 54A which are disposed on the disc surface, which isclose to the waist portion 53, of the first occluder disc 51 and areclose to the waist portion 53. It should be noted that in thisembodiment, disposal of the filament bundle structures 54 on the firstoccluder disc 51 is only used as an example, but is not intended tolimit the present application. For example, the filament bundlestructures 54 may be also disposed on the second occluder disc 52 andare close to the waist portion 53; or the filament bundle structures 54may be simultaneously disposed on the first occluder disc 51 and thesecond occluder disc 52.

With reference to FIG. 3, each lamelliform filament bundle structure 54Ais formed by winding at least one strand of filament bundle 540, forexample, the lamelliform filament bundle structure 54A is wound into asimilarly lamelliform shape. With reference to FIG. 4, the at least onestrand of filament bundle 540 includes multiple loosely distributedfilaments 5401, and a clearance space 5402 is formed between every twoadjacent loosely distributed filaments 5401. In the one strand offilament bundle 540, the multiple filaments 5401 may be disconnectedfrom one another, or formed by winding one continuous filament in areciprocating manner, and there will be no clear distinguishing in thesubsequent descriptions. In the one strand of filament bundle 540, theremay be eight or more filaments 5401, for example ten filaments 5401; andthe number of the filaments is not limited, and a person skilled in theart can select a desired or appropriate number of the filaments 5401according to a desire to form one strand of filament bundle 540. Thefilaments may be made of biocompatible polyamide or a PET material. Inorder to form a relatively good loosened structure, a filament with arelatively small diameter is selected, for example, a filament with adiameter of 0.01 to 0.2 mm is selected. This diameter is only used as anexample, and is not intended to limit the present application, and aperson skilled the art can select the filaments with proper diametersaccording to a desire to adapt to the technology development.

With reference to FIG. 5, in one specific implementation mode of thefilament bundle structures of this embodiment, the multiple loosenedlamelliform filament bundle structures 54A are spaced from one anotheraround the waist portion (what is as shown in the figure is actuallyconnection between the waist portion 53 and the first occluder disc 51),for example, they may be distributed in an equally spaced manner. Theremay be three to nine lamelliform filament bundle structures 54A, and 6lamelliform filament bundle structures 54A are shown in the figure. Theabove number of the lamelliform filament bundle structures 54A is onlyused as example, but is not intended to limit the present application,and a person skilled in the art can set a proper number of thelamelliform filament bundle structures 54A according to an actualrequirement. At least one end of each lamelliform filament bundlestructure 54A is impending freely. One end of each lamelliform filamentbundle structure 54A in the figure is connected with the first occluderdisc 51, and the other end of the lamelliform filament bundle structure54A is impending freely, or of course, the middle portion of eachlamelliform filament bundle structure 54A is connected with the firstoccluder 51, and two ends of the lamelliform filament bundle structure54A are impending freely.

FIG. 6 and FIG. 7 show another specific implantation mode of thefilament bundle structures, and what is different from the abovespecific implementation mode is that one end of each of the multiplelamelliform filament bundle structures 54A is gathered and connectedtogether through a central fixing member 542, and then is connected tothe first occluder disc 51, and the other end of the lamelliformfilament bundle structure 54A is impending freely. For example, thecentral fixing member 542 may be a filament which connects thelamelliform filament bundle structures 54A in series together. Thecentral fixing member 542 is disposed on the first occluder disc 51, forexample, it may be fixedly connected to the first occluder disc 51 in afilament restricting way; and the central fixing member 542 is closelyadjacent to the waist portion, so that the multiple lamelliform filamentbundle structures MA may be distributed in a spacing manner around thewaist portion, for example, they may be distributed in an equally spacedmanner. One end of each of part of the lamelliform filament bundlestructures MA is gathered and connected together, and other lamelliformfilament bundle structures MA are distributed at a distance from thepart of the lamelliform filament bundle structures MA.

The lamelliform filament bundle structures MA have relatively largevolume spaces due to their freely impending portions, which contributeto blood filling and thrombosis and the freely impending portions easilymove to a defect part along with flowing of blood, and can enter adefect for filling, thereby further improving an occluding effect.

Alternatively, FIG. 8 shows a configuration of the occluder 5 accordingto this embodiment, which is compressed in a radial direction and loadedinto a delivery sheath 601. The first occluder disc 51 is detachablyconnected with a delivery steel cable 602 in the delivery sheath 601;when the delivery sheath 601 moves to a position near the defect part,the delivery steel cable 602 pushes the occluder 5 to be released fromthe delivery sheath 601 to occlude the defect. It can be seen from thefigure that the freely impending portions of the lamelliform filamentbundle structures 54A may be adaptively located in a space with arelatively small volume near the waist portion 53 in a radialcompression process of the first occluder disc 51 instead of beingcompressed in the radial direction along with the first occluder disc51, thereby the increase of a friction force between the first occluderdisc 51 and the delivery sheath 601 may be avoided, and extra increaseof the volume of the delivery sheath 601 is not needed. When theoccluder 5 is released from the delivery sheath 601, even the freelyimpending portions of the lamelliform filament bundle structures 54A arepushed and scraped at the orifice of the delivery sheath 601 to recovertheir shapes and positions, the lamelliform filament bundle structures54A are still closely adjacent to the waist portion 53 to occluderesidual shunt of the defect.

With reference to FIG. 9, one end of the waist portion 53 of thisembodiment is movably connected with the first occluder disc 51, and theother end of the waist portion 53 is movably connected with the secondoccluder disc 52. The waist portion 53 may include at least one closedring 531 formed by a connection wire with a diameter not more than 0.3mm. The closed ring penetrates through the first occluder disc 51 andthe second occluder disc 52 at the same time. By the adoption of thiswaist portion structure, the occluder would not occupy much space of thedefect (such as a PFO “Patent Foramen Ovale” passageway) after beingimplanted. Further, the occluder can have a relatively high flexibility,and the waist portion 53 may adapt to the shape of the passageway tokeep its flexibility.

The connection wire limits a maximum distance between the first occluderdisc 51 and the second occluder disc 52. Thus, for example, when thewaist portion is maximally pulled, its long axis limits the maximumdistance between the first occluder disc 51 and the second occluder disc52, for example, when the waist portion 53 is maximally pulled, its longaxis may be 1 mm to 10 mm in length (which may be regarded as the lengthof the waist portion). In addition, the waist portion 53 may furtherrealize angle swinging and relative position excursion between the firstoccluder disc 51 and the second occluder disc 52. There may be multipleclosed rings 531, which are distributed in a manner of being spaced fromone another. One closed ring 531 may be formed by one independentconnection wire, and at this time, on the basis of maintaining asufficient flexibility of the waist portion 53, even if a certain closedring 531 is damaged, the connection of other independent closed rings531 may still work. In one closed ring 531, one connection wirepenetrates through the first occluder disc 51 and the second occluderdisc 52 in a reciprocating manner to form a multi-turn closed coil; orone connection wire penetrates through the first occluder disc 51 andthe second occluder disc 52 in a reciprocating manner to form multiplesingle-turn closed rings 531, so as to improve the productionefficiency.

With reference to FIG. 9, the first occluder disc 51 is of adouble-layer disc type structure woven by multiple elastic weavingfilaments, has grids, and includes an inner side mesh 511 and an outerside mesh 512; the inner side mesh 511 is located on the side close tothe waist portion 53, and it may be a planar structure; and the outerside mesh 512 is located on the side far away from the waist portion 53,and it may be a conical structure. The waist portion 53 may be connectedwith the inner side mesh 511, for example, the waist portion 53 may beconnected with the inner side mesh 511 through woven mesh openings ofthe inner side mesh 511; and the lamelliform filament bundle structures54A may be connected with the inner side mesh 511, for example, thelamelliform filament bundle structures 54A may be connected with theinner side mesh 511 through the woven mesh openings of the inner sidemesh 511.

End points of all the weaving filaments forming the first occluder disc51 are gathered at the fixed end 513 on the outer side mesh 512 of thefirst occluder disc 51, but no end socket for fixing all the weavingfilaments to prevent all the weaving filaments from being dispersed isdisposed on the inner side mesh 511 of the first occluder disc 51.Therefore, the first occluder disc 51 does not occupy the space of thewaist portion 53, and the waist portion 53 may be slender, loose andflexible, which contributes to improving the adaptability of theoccluder 5. The outer side mesh 512 shown in the figure is of a conicalstructure. It should be known that this structure is only used as anexample, and is not intended to limit the present application, and aperson skilled in the art can set the outer side mesh 512 as variousproper structural shapes based on an instruction of the presentapplication, for example, the outer side mesh 512 may also be of aplanar structure basically parallel to the inner side mesh 511. Ofcourse, the inner side mesh 511 of the first occluder 51 may alsoinclude the end socket for restricting and fixing all the weavingfilaments.

With reference to FIG. 5, FIG. 9 and FIG. 10, the inner side mesh 511 ofthe first occluder disc 51 includes a central region 514 and an edgeregion 515 surrounding the central region 514, wherein the number of theweaving filaments of the central region 514 is less than that of theweaving filaments of the edge region 515.

Further, when the central region 514 and the edge region 515 arerespectively compressed to the minimum in the radial direction, themaximum cross-sectional area of all the weaving filaments of the centralregion 514 subjected to the radial compression is smaller than theminimum cross-sectional area of all the weaving filaments of the edgeregion 515 subjected to the radial compression. As an example, the innerside mesh 511 does not have a structure for fixing the weavingfilaments, and a central hole 516 may be further formed in a centralposition, which is closest to the waist portion, on the inner side mesh511.

The structure of the first occluder disc 51 may be formed by amulti-order weaving method. The central region 514 includes a firstorder of woven mesh 514 woven by multiple first order weaving filaments5141; the edge region 515 includes a second order of woven mesh 515jointly woven by the multiple first order weaving filaments 5141 andmultiple second order weaving filaments 5151; and the second order ofwoven mesh 515 is farther from the central hole 516 than the first orderof woven mesh 514. The central hole 516 is located in the center of thefirst order of woven mesh 514, and is formed by the edge of the firstorder of woven mesh 514 in an encircling manner.

The number of the weaving filaments included in the first order of wovenmesh 514 is less than that of the weaving filaments included in anyother orders of woven meshes. In a naturally unfolded state, the gridsof the first order of woven mesh 514 are sparser than those of any otherorders of woven meshes. When each order of woven mesh is compressed tothe minimum in the radial direction, the cross sectional area of thefirst order of woven mesh 514 subjected to the radial compression issmaller than the minimum cross sectional areas of any other orders ofwoven meshes subjected to the radial compression, and for example, thecross sectional area of the first order of woven mesh 514 subjected tothe radial compression is smaller than the minimum cross sectional areaof the second order of woven mesh subjected to the radial compression;and at this time, the maximum cross sectional area of the central region514 is equal to the cross sectional area of the first order of wovenmesh 514 subjected to the radial compression, and the minimum crosssectional area of the edge region 515 is equal to the cross sectionalarea of the second order of woven mesh 515.

As an example, there are not more than 72 first order weaving filaments5141 in the first order of woven mesh 514, and the diameter of eachfirst order weaving filament 5141 is in a range from 0.08 mm to 0.15 mm.It should be understood that in other implementation modes of thepresent application, multiple third order weaving filaments and evenmore order weaving filaments are jointly woven with the multiple firstorder weaving filaments 5141 and the multiple second order weavingfilaments 5151 to form a first occluder disc 51 having three orders ofwoven mesh and even more orders of woven meshes. The edge region 515 maybe the woven mesh formed by the order of weaving filaments closest tothe edge of the first occluder disc 51, and the woven mesh formed by allthe other weaving filaments is the central region 514; or the woven meshformed by the order of weaving filaments closest to the central hole maybe located in the central region 514, and the woven mesh formed by allthe other weaving filaments is located in the edge region 515. Forexample, when the central region 514 including the central hole and thefirst order of woven mesh and the edge region 515 including the secondorder of woven mesh and the third order of woven mesh are compressed tothe minimum in the radial direction, the maximum cross sectional area ofthe central region 514 is the cross sectional area of the first order ofwoven mesh subjected to the radial compression, and the minimum crosssectional area of the edge region 515 is the cross sectional area of thesecond order of woven mesh; or if the central region 514 includes thecentral hole, the first order of woven mesh and the second order ofwoven mesh, and the edge region 515 includes the third order of wovenmesh, at this time, the maximum cross sectional area of the centralregion 514 is the cross sectional area of the second order of woven meshsubjected to the radial compression, and the minimum cross sectionalarea of the edge region 515 is the cross sectional area of the thirdorder of woven mesh.

The first occluder disc 51 may be woven by a shape memory alloy, such asa nickel-titanium alloy wire, and has super elasticity after thermaltreatment. The first occluder disc 51 also may be made of a metalmaterial, such as stainless steel, or other materials which are suitablefor a human body and have relatively high elasticity. The adoption ofthe nickel-titanium alloy wire may ensure that the first occluder disc51 may automatically recover to an original shape after being releasedfrom the delivery sheath with a smaller diameter than itself, therebyoccluding the defect and maintaining a sufficient radial supportingforce. In addition, the first order of woven mesh 514 may also be madeof a bioabsorbable metal material, or further include an absorbable endsocket which may gather and fix the first order of woven mesh at thedistal end. For example, the first order of woven mesh 514 and the endsocket may be both made of pure magnesium or a medical magnesium alloy.

If the first occluder disc 51 adopts the multi-order woven structure,the lamelliform filament bundle structures 54A may be disposed on thefirst order of woven mesh 514, and the waist portion may be connectedwith the first order of woven mesh 514 to realize connection between thewaist portion and the first occluder disc 51. In addition, thelamelliform filament bundle structures 54A may be distributed around thecentral hole 516 of the first occluder disc 51, and the waist portionmay also be connected with the first occluder disc 51 around the centralhole 516.

With reference to FIG. 11, the second occluder disc 52 of thisembodiment is a single-layer disc woven by elastic weaving filaments andmay include an interlocking structure 521 and multiple supporting rods522 distributed in a radiating manner; the multiple supporting rods 522are connected through the interlocking structure 521 into a whole; thewhole second occluder disc 52 may be of a flat structure, and allportions of the second occluder disc 52 are uniform in thickness. Inthis flat structure, an included angle between two supporting rods mayvary between 30 and 150 degrees.

The multiple supporting rods 522 are disposed in pairs, and each pair ofsupporting rods is located on the same diameter of the second occluderdisc 52. To be more specific, the second occluder disc 52 includes sixsupporting rods 522, and two supporting rods 522 distributed on the samediameter may form one pair of supporting rods, for example, thesupporting rod 522 a and the supporting rod 522 b form one pair ofsupporting rods. Each pair of supporting rods is formed by the samegroup of elastic weaving filaments, for example, the group of elasticweaving filaments of each pair of supporting rods is divided into twosubgroups; and the two subgroups of elastic weaving filamentsrespectively bypass a central point of the interlocking structure fromtwo sides of the central point. For example, one group of weavingfilaments forming one pair of supporting rods, namely the supporting rod522 a and the supporting rod 522 b, includes two subgroups of weavingfilaments 522 c and 522 d.

The weaving filaments may be made of a memory alloy material having highbiocompatibility, such as a nickel-titanium alloy.

It can be seen from the figure that in a region near the center of thesecond occluder disc 52, each weaving filament is overlapped withmultiple weaving filaments of the other several groups of weavingfilaments in sequence, thereby forming the interlocking structure 521which may be an annular interlocking structure 521. The positions of thesix supporting rods are relatively fixed by the interlocking structure521, and under a condition of no extra materials for fixing, the sixsupporting rods form an overall flat structure. In addition, a softmembrane may be attached to the second occluder disc 52, such as asutured polyester or PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) membrane, covers thesupporting rods and the annular interlocking structure, and may exert aneffect of quickly cutting off blood flow.

It should be known that the six supporting rods herein are only used asan example, and are not intended to limit the present application, and aperson skilled in the art can select a proper number of supporting rodsas desired, or make a proper deformation to supporting rod structuresbased on the present application to finally form the second occluderdisc 52 which is overall of the flat structure and is uniform inthickness on all the portions, and the deformation and improvementsbased on the instruction of the present application shall fall withinthe scope of protection of the present application.

Second Embodiment

FIG. 12 shows a schematic diagram of an occluder 5 according to a secondembodiment of the present application, and what is different from thefirst embodiment is that the occluder 5 includes multiple woven filamentbundle structures 54B distributed around the waist portion 53. Withreference to FIG. 13, each woven filament bundle structure 54B includesmultiple strands of intertwined and woven filament bundles 540; and atleast one strand of filament bundle 540 includes multiple looselydistributed filaments 5401. Each woven filament bundle structure 54Baxially includes a connection section 543 a and an impending section 543b which are connected with each other; one end portion of the connectionsection 543 a is connected with the first occluder disc 51 (not shown inthe figure); and at least one portion of the impending section 543 b isimpending freely.

The multiple strands of filament bundles 540 in the connection section543 a are intertwined and woven together, for example, may be looselyintertwined and woven together. The impending section 543 b includesmultiple strands of filament bundles 540 which may be all from themultiple strands of filament bundles 540 of the connection section 543a, namely the connection section 543 a and the impending section 543 bare two portions of the same filament bundle 540; or the connectionsection 543 a and the impending section 543 b are respectively formed bymutually independent filament bundles 540. At least one strand of thefilament bundle 540 in the impending section 543 b includes multipleloosely distributed filaments 5401 which are naturally dispersed,instead of being intertwined and woven, and are impending freely withoutany restrictions. For example, the multiple strands of filament bundles540 in the impending section 543 b may all not participate inintertwining and weaving, and the filaments 5401 in all the filamentbundles 540 are naturally dispersed, thereby forming a loosenedstructure with a larger volume than the connection section 543 a on theimpending section 543 b.

The occluder 5 may include three to nine woven filament bundlestructures 54B, and this range is only used as an example, but is notintended to limit the present application, and a person skilled in theart can select a proper number of woven filament bundle structures 54Baccording to an actual requirement. The multiple woven filament bundlestructures 54B may be interconnected together to form a whole; or thewoven filament bundle structures 54B may be distributed near the waistportion 53 in an independent spacing manner, and a person skilled in theart can set a proper distribution structure according to an implantationrequirement.

For example, with reference to FIG. 14, the occluder 5 includes fourwoven filament bundle structures 54B. One end of each woven filamentbundle structure 54B is connected together by a central fixing member544, and the other end of the woven filament bundle structure 54B isimpending freely. The central fixing member 544 may be a filament whichconnects all the woven filament bundle structures 54B in series togetherand is connected with the first occluder disc 51, for example, thecentral fixing member 544 is fixedly connected to the first occluderdisc 51 in a filament restricting manner. The central fixing member 544is closely adjacent to the waist portion 53, so that the multiple wovenfilament bundle structures 54B may be distributed around the waistportion 53 in a spacing manner, for example, they may be distributed inan equal spacing manner.

For another example, with reference to FIG. 15, the occluder 5 includessix woven filament bundle structures 54B which are directly interwoventogether instead of being connected together through other components(such as the above-mentioned central fixing member 544), wherein thewoven interconnected region of the multiple woven filament bundlestructures 54B may be located near the waist portion 53.

Third Embodiment

At least one end of each filament bundle structure in the firstembodiment and the second embodiment is impending freely, and what isdifferent is that in the third embodiment, the filament bundlestructures are loosely wound on the disc surface where the filamentbundle structures are disposed, such as the disc surface, which faces tothe second occluder disc, of the first occluder disc.

With reference to FIG. 16 and FIG. 17, a filament bundle structure 84 ofan occluder 8 includes at least one filament. The filament 841 is woundon at least part of weaving filaments 811 of a first occluder disc 81,for example, the filament may be wound on at least one weaving filament811 in a reciprocating manner for multiple turns to form the loosenedfilament bundle structure. Or at least one filament 841 may pass throughmultiple grids 812, which is formed by the weaving filament 811, in aninterpenetrating manner, for example, the filament 841 passes throughthe grids for many times in a reciprocating interpenetrating manner,thereby forming the loosened filament bundle structure. Or at least onefilament 841 may be wound on at least one weaving filament 811, thenpass through multiple grids 812, which is formed by the weaving filament811, in an interpenetrating manner and then continuously wind anotherweaving filament 811, thereby finally forming the loosened filamentbundle structure distributed around the waist portion (not shown in thefigure).

Fourth Embodiment

With reference to FIG. 18, an occluder 6, according to the fourthembodiment, includes a first occluder disc 61, a second occluder disc62, a waist portion 63 that is located between the first occluder disc61 and the second occluder disc 62 and connects the first occluder disc61 with the second occluder disc 62, and a filament bundle structure 64which is disposed on the disc surface, which is close to the waistportion 63, of the first occluder disc 61 and is closely adjacent to thewaist portion 63. On the basis of the occluder 5 or the occluder 8, itis further defined that when the waist portion 63 of the occluder 6 ismaximally pulled, its long axis may be in a range from 1 mm to 5 mm inlength (which may be regarded as the length of the waist portion), forexample, 1 mm to 4 mm, 1 mm to 2 mm and 2 mm to 3 mm, or to be morespecific, 2 mm, 3 mm, 4 mm and the like. After the occluder is implantedinto a human body, the first occluder disc 61 and the second occluderdisc 62 are respectively located on two opposite sides of a defect 2,and the waist portion 63 is located in the defect 2. The defect isspecifically a PFO passageway. The PFO passageways of different patientsare different in length due to individual differences.

When the waist portion 63 is shorter than that of the PFO passageway,one of the first occluder disc 61 and the second occluder disc 62, whicheasily deforms under the pulling action of the waist portion 63, ispulled by the waist portion 63 into the PFO passageway. With referenceto FIG. 18, the first occluder disc 61 deforms more easily than thesecond occluder disc 62 under the pulling action herein, so that part ofthe disc surface of one side, which is connected with the waist portion63, of the first occluder disc 61 may enter the PFO passageway 2 underthe pulling action of the waist portion 63 to compensate the deficiencyof the length of the waist portion 63. The compensated waist portion 63is as long as the PFO passageway, thereby guaranteeing the stability andthe occlusion performance of the occluder 6.

By the arrangement, the length applicability of the waist portion 63 ofthe occluder 6 may be expanded, namely the waist portion 63 with thesame length may be applicable to PFO passageways 2 with differentlengths. During surgery, a doctor can select the occluder 6 of a smallerspecification for ordinary patients, for example, the occluder 6 withthe waist portion length ranging from 1 to 2 mm may be applicable tobasically all patients, and the occluder 6 with the waist portion lengthranging from 1 to 4 mm may be applicable to most patients, so that theuniversality of the occluder 6 is improved, and such operation that thedoctor had to measure the length of the PFO passageway to select thespecification of the occluder is reduced or avoided as much as possible;and therefore, the surgical operation difficulty is reduced, thesurgical operation time is shortened, and residual shunt caused byimproper selection of the specification of the occluder 6 is furtheravoided, reduced, or mitigated as much as possible.

When disposed at a position, which is closely adjacent to the waistportion 63, on the first occluder disc 61, the filament bundle structure64 would enter the PFO passageway 2 along with one portion of the firstoccluder disc 61. After entering the PFO passageway 2, the loosenedfilament bundle structure 64 may occlude a position near an openingportion of the PFO passageway 2, and blood flowing into the PFOpassageway 2 may flow into the loosened filament bundle structure andform thrombi; and the thrombus-containing filament bundle structure 64becomes a compact structure which occludes subsequent blood flow,thereby further improving the occluding effect.

If the first occluder disc 61 includes a multi-order woven structurewhich is the same or similar as the above-mentioned first occluder disc51, it is more favorable for the first occluder disc 61 to enter the PFOpassageway 2 to compensate the waist portion under the pulling action ofthe waist portion 63. That is to say, the first occluder disc 61includes a first order of woven mesh woven by multiple first orderweaving filaments and a second order of woven mesh jointly woven by themultiple first order weaving filaments and multiple second order weavingfilaments; and the second order of woven mesh is farther from the waistportion 63 than the first order of woven mesh. The waist portion 63 maybe connected with the first order of woven mesh to realize connectionbetween the waist portion and the first occluder disc 61.

In addition, a central hole is formed in an edge, which is closelyadjacent to the waist portion 63, on the first order of woven mesh, andthe waist portion 63 may be further distributed around the central hole.

After the occluder 6 is implanted, under the pulling action of the waistportion 63, the first order of woven mesh, which is relatively soft andloose, deforms more easily than other portions of the first occluderdisc 61 and is easily pulled by the waist portion 63 into the PFOpassageway 2, thereby avoiding the situation where the first occluderdisc 61 is too hard to enter the PFO passageway and reducing wear of theweaving filaments on a tissue wall. In addition, the second order ofwoven mesh in the first occluder disc 61 deforms and enters the PFOpassageway hardly under the pulling action of the waist portion 63 dueto its greater hardness than the first order of woven mesh, which isformed by a relatively large number of weaving filaments and relativelydense woven grids, thereby preventing too many portions of the firstoccluder disc 61 from entering the PFO passageway, also preventing thefirst occluder disc 61 from entering the PFO passageway too easily,ensuring that the waist portion 63 may maintain a straining state afterthe implantation and avoiding the phenomenon that a connection wire ofthe waist portion 63 is in a loose state after the implantation; andtherefore, the first occluder disc 61 and the second occluder disc 62may both cling to the tissue wall to form effective occlusion.

Fifth Embodiment

With reference to FIG. 19 and FIG. 20, an occluder 7 according to thefifth embodiment of the present application includes a first occluderdisc 71, a second occluder disc 72, and a waist portion 73 which islocated between the first occluder disc 71 and the second occluder disc72 and connects the first occluder disc 71 with the second occluder disc72. The occluder 7 further includes a filament bundle structure 74 whichis disposed on the disc surface, which is close to the waist portion 73,of the first occluder disc 71 and is closely adjacent to the waistportion 73. The filament bundle structure 74 includes a loosenedfilament bundle structure. After the occluder is implanted into a humanbody, the first occluder disc 71 and the second occluder disc 72 arerespectively located on two opposite sides of a defect, and the waistportion 73 is located in the defect.

On the basis of all the above-mentioned occluders (such as the occluder5, or occluder 6, or occluder 8), in a naturally unfolded state of thisoccluder 7, the edge of the first occluder disc 71 is bent towards thesecond occluder disc 72, thus forming a flange 711. The flange 711 formsa relative region 712 in an encircling manner. The filament bundlestructure 74 is located inside the region 712. The second occluder disc72 is located outside the region 712, as shown in FIG. 19; or at leastone portion of the second occluder disc 72 may be sunken into the region712, as shown in FIG. 20.

Disposal of the flange 711 on the first occluder disc 71 may increase aclamping force between the first occluder disc 71 and the secondoccluder disc 72 after the occluder 7 is implanted and may also reducethe friction of the first occluder disc 71 to a contact tissue.Particularly for the occluder 7 with the relatively short waist portion73, when one portion of the first occluder disc 71 enters the defect tocompensate the length of the waist portion 73, an edge region, where theflange 711 is formed, may not deform easily, which guarantees theclamping force on the edge and not obviously enhances the friction forceaction of the edge region of the first occluder 71 to the contacttissue, and even provides a proper deformation allowance for the portionof the first occluder disc 71 to enter the defect, thereby ensuring thatthe first occluder disc 71 may compensate the waist portion and alsokeep an occluding shape unchanged, namely ensuring effective occlusion.

Sixth Embodiment

FIG. 21 and FIG. 22 show schematic diagrams of the second occluder disc52 according to the sixth embodiment of the present application, what isdifferent from the second occluder disc 52 in the first embodiment isthat the position, which is close to the tail end of at least onesupporting rod 522, on one weaving filament of the supporting rod 522 ofthe second occluder disc 52 is of a spring shape, namely a tail endspring 5221 in the figure. The spring 5221 restricts the tail ends ofother weaving filaments 5222 on the same supporting rod 522 in itscavity. A smooth blunt nose 5223 may be further formed at the tail endof the tail end spring 457.

In each occluder provided by the present application, the filamentbundle structures are closely adjacent to the waist portion and mayblock the opening of the defect after the implantation, therebyeffectively preventing blood from flowing into the defect from one sideof the defect and/or preventing the blood from passing through thedefect and flowing into the other side of the defect from one side ofthe defect and avoiding formation of a residual shunt. In addition, thefilament bundle structures are of the loosened structures, so thatclearance spaces in the filament bundle structures may be easily filledwith influent blood to form sealed structures, and the blood containedand retained in the loosened structures may easily form thrombi whichmay further compact the sealed structures, thereby enhancing a blockingeffect on the blood; and in addition, no other extra occluding materialsare needed, thereby reducing a biological risk after the implantation.In addition, even if the maximum length of the waist portion of theoccluder of the present application is slightly less than the length ofthe PFO passageway of a patient, for the purpose of adapting to arelatively long defect after the implantation, part of the disc surfaceof one side, which is connected with the waist portion, of the easilydeforming one of the first occluder disc and the second occluder discunder the pulling action of the waist portion is pulled by the waistportion into the PFO passageway to compensate the deficiency of thelength of the waist portion and improve the universality of the PFOoccluder. In addition, when the loosened filament bundle structuresenter the PFO passageway together with the disc surface, the residualshunt occluding performance may be further improved. In addition,formation of the bent flange at the edge of the first occluder disc mayincrease the clamping force between the first occluder disc and thesecond occluder disc after the occluder is implanted, and also mayreduce the friction of the first occluder disc to the contact tissue.

Seventh Embodiment

With reference to FIG. 23, an occluder 9 according to the seventhembodiment of the present application includes a first occluder disc 91,a second occluder disc 92, and a waist portion 93 connecting the firstoccluder disc 91 with the second occluder disc 92. When the waistportion 93 is maximally pulled, its long axis is longer than or equal to1 mm but shorter than 2 mm. The first occluder disc 91 of the firstoccluder in this embodiment may be any first occluder disc structurefrom embodiment one through embodiment six, the second occluder disc 92in this embodiment may be any second occluder disc structure fromembodiment one through embodiment six, and the waist portion 93 in thisembodiment may be any waist portion structure from embodiment onethrough embodiment six. Therefore, this embodiment may partially orcompletely utilize the contents and descriptions in the above-mentionedembodiments from one through six, and duplicative language and detailswill not be repeated.

With reference to FIG. 24, after the occluder 9 is implanted into ahuman body, the first occluder disc 91 and the second occluder disc 92are located on two opposite sides of a PFO passageway 2 and cover anopening of the PFO passageway 2 to prevent blood from flowing into thePFO passageway; and the waist portion 93 is located in the PFOpassageway 2. The length of the waist portion 93 (namely the length ofthe long axis of the waist portion 93 stretching maximally) is generallyless than that of the PFO passageway, the waist portion 93 is in astraining state after the implantation, and starts to pull the firstoccluder disc 91 and the second occluder disc 92 to enable the firstoccluder disc 91 and the second occluder disc 92 to cling to a tissuewall at the periphery of the opening of the PFO passageway to avoidformation of a residual shunt passageway due to poor fitting between thetwo occluder discs and the tissue wall, thereby improving the occludingeffect of the occluder. During pulling of the waist portion 93, one ofthe first occluder disc 91 and the second occluder disc 92, which easilydeforms under the pulling action of the waist portion 93, is pulled bythe waist portion 93 into the PFO passageway to compensate thedeficiency of the length of the waist portion 93. The compensated waistportion 93 is as long as the PFO passageway, thereby guaranteeing thestability and the occlusion performance of the occluder.

For example, the first occluder disc 91 may include a multi-order wovenstructure which is the same or similar as the first occluder disc 51 inthe first embodiment, it can be more desirable for the first occluderdisc 91 to enter the PFO passageway 2 to compensate the waist portionunder the pulling action of the waist portion 93. That is to say, thefirst occluder disc 91 includes a first order of woven mesh woven bymultiple first order weaving filaments and a second order of woven meshjointly woven by the multiple first order weaving filaments and multiplesecond order weaving filaments; and the second order of woven mesh isfarther from the waist portion 93 than the first order of woven mesh.The waist portion 93 may be connected with the first order of woven meshto realize connection between the waist portion and the first occluderdisc 91. In addition, a central hole is formed in an edge, which isclosely adjacent to the waist portion 93, on the first order of wovenmesh, and the waist portion 93 may be further distributed around thecentral hole.

After the occluder 9 is implanted, under the pulling action of the waistportion 93, the first order of woven mesh, which is relatively soft andloose, deforms more easily than other portions of the first occluderdisc 91 and is easily pulled by the waist portion 93 into the PFOpassageway 2, thereby avoiding the phenomenon that the first occluderdisc 91 is too hard to enter the PFO passageway and reducing wear of theweaving filaments on the tissue wall. In addition, the second order ofwoven mesh in the first occluder disc 91 deforms and enters the PFOpassageway hardly under the pulling action of the waist portion 93 dueto its greater hardness than the first order of woven mesh, which isformed by a relatively large number of weaving filaments and relativelydense woven grids, thereby preventing too many portions of the firstoccluder disc 91 from entering the PFO passageway, also preventing thefirst occluder disc 91 from entering the PFO passageway too easily,ensuring that the waist portion 93 may maintain the straining stateafter the implantation and avoiding the phenomenon that a connectionwire of the waist portion 93 is in a loose state after the implantation;and therefore, the first occluder disc 91 and the second occluder disc92 may both cling to the tissue wall to form effective occlusion.

In addition, by this arrangement, the length applicability of the waistportion of the occluder may be expanded, namely the waist portion withthe same length may be applicable to PFO passageways with differentlengths. During surgery, a doctor can select the occluder of a smallspecification for ordinary patients, so that the universality of theoccluder is improved, and such operation that the doctor had to measurethe length of the PFO passageway to select the specification of theoccluder is avoided as far as possible; and therefore, the surgicaloperation difficulty is reduced, and the surgical operation time isshortened.

All technical features of the above-mentioned embodiments may becombined, as desired. In order to make the description concise, not allpossible combinations of all the technical features in theabove-mentioned embodiments are described, but if only the combinationsof these technical features have no contradictions, they shall all bedeemed to fall within the scope of the described.

The above-mentioned embodiments only express several implementationmodes of the present application, and their descriptions are relativelyspecific and particular, but not intended to limit the scope of theinvention patent. It should be noted that a person of ordinary skill inthe art can further make a variety of deformations and improvementswithout departing from the concept of the present application, and thesedeformations and improvements shall all fall within the protection scopeof the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of theinvention patent shall be based on attached claims.

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 21. An occluder, comprising: a first occluder disc; asecond occluder disc; and a waist portion connecting the first occluderdisc with the second occluder disc, wherein the occluder furthercomprises at least one loosened filament bundle structure, and thefilament bundle structure is disposed on at least one of two oppositedisc surfaces of the first occluder disc and the second occluder disc,and is proximate to the waist portion.
 22. The occluder according toclaim 21, wherein at least one end of the filament bundle structure isimpending freely.
 23. The occluder according to claim 22, wherein themiddle portion of the filament bundle structure is connected with one ofthe two opposite disc surfaces, and two ends of the filament bundlestructure are impending freely.
 24. The occluder according to claim 22,wherein the occluder comprises a plurality of lamelliform filamentbundle structures distributed around the waist portion; each lamelliformfilament bundle structure is wound by at least one strand of filamentbundle; and the lamelliform filament bundle structures are spaced fromone another, or at least part of the lamelliform filament bundlestructures are gathered and connected together on one of the twoopposite disc surfaces.
 25. The occluder according to claim 24, whereinone end of at least one lamelliform filament bundle structure isconnected with one of the two opposite disc surfaces the disc surface,and the other end of the lamelliform filament bundle structure isimpending freely; and/or the middle portion of at least one lamelliformfilament bundle structure is connected with one of the two opposite discsurfaces, and two ends of the lamelliform filament bundle structure areimpending freely.
 26. The occluder according to claim 22, wherein theoccluder comprises a plurality of woven filament bundle structuresdistributed around the waist portion; each woven filament bundlestructure comprises a plurality of strands of intertwined and wovenfilament bundles; and the woven filament bundle structures are spacedfrom one another or at least part of the woven filament bundlestructures are gathered and connected together on one of the twoopposite disc surfaces.
 27. The occluder according to claim 26, whereineach woven filament bundle structure axially comprises a connectionsection and an impending section which are connected with each other;one end of the connection section is connected with one of the twoopposite disc surfaces; at least one portion of the impending section isimpending freely; and at least one strand of filament bundle in theimpending section comprises a plurality of naturally dispersedfilaments.
 28. The occluder according to claim 21, wherein the filamentbundle structures are loosely intertwined on one of the two oppositedisc surfaces.
 29. The occluder according to claim 28, wherein the discsurface comprises a filament woven structure; and the filament bundlestructures are intertwined on at least one part of weaving filaments ofone of the two opposite disc surfaces and/or the filament bundlestructures pass through multiple woven grids of one of the two oppositedisc surfaces in an interpenetrating manner.
 30. The occluder accordingto claim 21, wherein the waist portion comprises at least one connectionwire which connects the two opposite disc surfaces of the first occluderdisc and the second occluder disc; or the waist portion comprises aplurality of closed rings, and each closed ring is connected with thetwo opposite disc surfaces of the first occluder disc and the secondoccluder disc through one independent connection wire; or the waistportion is a multi-turn closed coil formed by penetrating one connectionwire through the two opposite disc surfaces of the first occluder discand the second occluder disc in a reciprocating manner.
 31. The occluderaccording to claim 21, wherein the filament bundle structures are atleast disposed on a disc surface of the first occluder disc which facesto the second occluder disc; the disc surface of the first occluder discis woven by elastic weaving filaments, and comprises a central regionand an edge region surrounding the central region; when the centralregion and the edge region are respectively compressed to the minimum ina radial direction, the maximum cross-sectional area of the centralregion subjected to the radial compression is smaller than the minimumcross-sectional area of the edge region subjected to the radialcompression; and the waist portion is connected with the central region.32. The occluder according to claim 31, wherein the disc surface of thefirst occluder disc, which faces to the second occluder disc, comprisesa central hole; the first occluder disc comprises a multi-order wovenmesh; the central region comprises a first order of woven mesh which isclosest to the central hole and is woven by multiple first order weavingfilaments; the edge region comprises a second order of woven mesh whichis jointly woven by a plurality of first order weaving filaments and aplurality of second order weaving filaments and is farther from thewaist portion than the first order of woven mesh; and the waist portionis connected with the first order of woven mesh.
 33. The occluderaccording to claim 32, wherein the filament bundle structures aredisposed on the first order of woven mesh.
 34. The occluder according toclaim 36, wherein there are not more than 72 first order weavingfilaments with a diameter ranging from 0.08 mm to 0.15 mm.
 35. Theoccluder according to claim 21, wherein the filament bundle structuresare at least disposed on a disc surface of the first occluder disc,which faces to the second occluder disc; in a naturally unfolded state,the edge of the first occluder disc is bent towards the second occluderdisc, thus forming a flange; at least one portion of the second occluderdisc is sunken into a region formed by the flange in an encirclingmanner; or the second occluder disc is located outside the region formedby the flange in the encircling manner.
 36. The occluder according toclaim 21, wherein the second occluder disc is a single-layer disc wovenby elastic weaving filaments and comprises an interlocking structure andmultiple supporting rods radiating from the center; the multiplesupporting rods are connected into a whole through the interlockingstructure; and the whole second occluder disc is a flat structure, andall portions of the second occluder disc are uniform in thickness. 37.The occluder according to claim 36, wherein, in a region near the centerof the second occluder disc, each weaving filament of one of themultiple supporting rods is overlapped with the multiple weavingfilaments of other multiple supporting rods in sequence, thus formingthe interlocking structure.
 38. The occluder according to claim 37,wherein the multiple supporting rods are disposed in pairs; and eachpair of supporting rods is located on the same diameter of the secondoccluder disc.
 39. The occluder according to claim 38, wherein each pairof supporting rods is woven by the same group of elastic weavingfilaments; the group of elastic weaving filaments of each pair ofsupporting rods is divided into two subgroups; and the two subgroups ofelastic weaving filaments respectively bypass a central point of theinterlocking structure from two sides of the central point.
 40. Theoccluder according to claim 36, wherein one section of each supportingrod proximate the tail end, has a spring shape.